In Chapter 6 of 12 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, product designer and software engineer Chris Hinkle shares how his computer programming career began working at a temp job. Watching an inefficient process occur, Hinkle traces the inefficiency to the source and makes adjustments to save the company time and resources. This leads Hinkle to start programming and create process efficiencies. Hinkle currently designs products and develops software for The Barbarian Group digital marketing services company. Previously, he worked at HUGE and R/GA digital advertising agencies. He has also founded a product incubation laboratory, The Hinkle Way.